[ckan-dev] Metadata fields

Tue Dec 10 12:50:57 UTC 2013

As I understand, you don't need to use 'extras': you can write a
custom extension for your site which adds extra metadata fields of
your choosing and, if you like, also customise the forms to include
the new fields.

Hopefully someone else can provide details ...

Mark

On 05/12/2013, Stefan Oderbolz <stefan.oderbolz at liip.ch> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> yes you can add arbitrary fields using the so called "extras".
> The predefined metadata fields are listed here:
> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/blob/master/ckan/logic/schema.py#L63
> They used to be in the docs, see e.g. for CKAN 1.8:
> http://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-1.8/domain-model-dataset.html, but I can't
> find this page in the latest docs anymore.
>
> So apart from all the predefined fields, the "extras" may contain any
> key/value pair, which allows you to store whatever you want.
>
> Regards Stefan
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Mark Brady - NOAA Federal <
> mark.brady at noaa.gov> wrote:
>
>> Here is a very basic question.  Is it possible to set up an instance
>> of CKAN with any number of custom metadata fields or is one restricted
>> to the use a predefined fields?
>>
>> -Mark
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